Create and operate commercial arrangements to protect authorized foreign intelligence collection
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Intelligence commercial activities
- Statute
- 10 U.S.C. § 431 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 432 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 433 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 435 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 436 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 437 · 2024 edition (GovInfo)
- 10 U.S.C. § 430e · Enacted text: P.L. 119-60 §1621
- Pub. L. 119-60, §1621
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; prescribed delegations and SecDef/Deputy approval for sensitive activities.
- Executor · routing lead
- Only Defense elements authorized by implementing regulations; public transaction-level delegations not verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Underlying collection separately authorized; appropriate legal review.
Pre-coordinate with CIA; domestic aspects coordinated with FBI.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Generated funds offset minimum necessary/reasonable secure-operation costs; excess to Treasury.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Domestic acts only to support foreign intelligence; cannot use cover businesses to supply DoD domestically except needed for security of covered activity.
- Not authority for otherwise unauthorized intelligence, general commercial profit-seeking or broad economic intervention.
- Advance notice to U.S. persons in operational/managerial/supervisory positions.
- FY26 §430e vendor deconfliction/risk capability is an additional governance duty, not an expansion of substantive powers.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
Program process, audience and dated intake check (2026-10-04)
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.
Actor sources
- OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support
- DIA Finance and Acquisition career field: programming, budgeting, allocating, contracting
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.